Firefox add-ons infected
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Two add-ons for popular Open Source web browser Firefox have been downloaded by thousands of unsuspecting users, according Mozilla. A security post on the campany's blog warns that two experimental plug-ins - version 4.0 of Sothink Web Video Downloader and all versions of Master Filer were found to contain Trojan code aimed at Windows users. "If a user installs one of these infected add-ons, the trojan would be executed when Firefox starts and the host computer would...
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